A radio show produced, scripted, researched and recorded by Felicity Ford, which aired on BBC Oxford on Boxing Day, (26th December) 2010.

Further information on the project can be found at http://www.thedomesticsoundscape.com/wordpress and the tracklisting for the radio show is presented below.

The copyright of all the music featured in the show remains with the artists and bands who produced it. The concept for the show, the script and all the field-recordings remain copyright of Felicity Ford and BBC Oxford.

Joe Moran speaking about his book, On Roads and the idea of being âin Road Countryâ

Folks I met over the Summer speaking about the A4074 road including Kelly Carter from Brazierâs Park, Ben Smith who runs The Acoustic Ballroom, and a man I interviewed at the Warborough and Shillingford festival whoâs been using the road for many years

Black Box Recorder â The English Motorway System, from the album The Facts of Life

Stephen Watts (who I interviewed at Brazierâs park) talking about the idea of âan indiginous perspectiveâ on the land

Ed from A Walk Around Britain talking about âtravel without journey.â I travelled to Faversham to meet Ed and Will in Edâs family home, to show them how to knit good walking socks and to learn more about what we can find on foot

Views near Brazierâs Park, Ipsden

Snippets of audio from my very first walk around the entire length of the A4074

The barn owl sounds from my first overnight walk around the A4074

Dawn chorus recordings made around Ipsden at first light

Sunrise in the fields around the A4074 in Ipsden

John â one of the Brazierâs Park trustees â briefly giving an overview of Brazierâs Park. Stephen Watts talking about wild food, learning directly from the landscape, and the agricultural history of the Chilterns

Oats and Beans and Barley O sung by Ed, Will and Ginger and taken from their album Songs

Ed and Will talking about walking and welcoming all to this land in an echoey valley in Faversham, Kent, where we walked and talked for many hours about journeying, travelling and the difficult politics of cars

Spenser the Rover sung by Ed, Will and Ginger and also taken from their album Songs

Sounds recorded from the abandoned stretch of the A4074 road. Lying parallel to the stretch of the A4074 now called Portway, The Old Reading Road is now a derelict, potholed stretch of road being slowly reclaimed by brambles, creatures and trees

Andy Letcher â lead singer of Telling the Bees â talking about The Language of Birds, one of the songs on the album An English Arcanum

Telling the Bees playing The Language of Birds in a field in Sandford, near the A4074

Telling the Bees playing in the field in Sandford, near the A4074

Rose Fisherâs street organ, recorded at the Woodcote Steam Rally, in a field beside the A4074

Andy Crockett â publicist for The Woodcote Steam Rally â talking about the history of the rally, mixed with recordings of vintage tractors, traction engines and historic, agricultural machinery on display there. Also, interviews with Edward Snowdon talking about his B2 tasker tractor, and Rose Fisher, who brings her collection of mechanical instruments to the rally every year and plays them to the public to raise funds for the air ambulance

Rose Fisherâs music boxes

Joe Moran talking about the history of UK Motorway signage and the role that RAF Benson played in the decision to use Jock Kinneirâs Transport typeface on all our UK motorway signs

Edâs beautiful late-night guitar noodling in the background, while David Beasley shares his stories concerning the history of the A4074 road

Ben Smith talking about The Acoustic Ballroom and Eve from The Keeling Curve talking about how The Acoustic Ballroom helped the band when they first started out

Warborough and Shillingford Festival feature including Des Baxter, Emily Rae, Banjocat and The Keeling Curve. Also, recordings of children talking about their enjoyment of the sandpit, and the camels who were racing at the festival this year

Racing Camelids at the Warborough and Shillingford Festival, 2010

Band of Hope singing Baby youâre a mess on the bridge that spans the A4074 between Berinsfield and Dorchester

Interviews with bikers at the H Cafe, beside the Berinsfield roundabout on the A4074

Charlie Chester talking about his experience of riding a bike on the A4074

Interviews about the 13 bends of death on the A4074

Joe Moran talking about the road as a shared, political space

Will from A Walk Around Britain talking about the speed that the soul flies at; 27MPH

Discussion with Scott about how my explorations around the A4074 have changed my relationship to the road

Andrew Milloy talking about the inspiration for the song Somebodyâs Child


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Artist/Composer: Felicity Ford
Keywords: A4074 road; radio show; field recording; Felicity Ford; BBC Oxford

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

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